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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Rather than instantly losing the final fight if you don't have the Circuit Jammer, you actually get to fight the Titanium Cyborg... only to automatically lose (and then die gruesomely) after 3 moves.]]]][[note]]The Titanium Cyborg has Skill of 18 while the Silver Crusader can have a maximum of 13. While it's theoretically mathematically possible for the Silver Crusader to win the fight, the probability is so vanishly small as to be zero for all practical intents and purposes, hence the automatic loss.[[/note]]
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'''''Appointment with F.E.A.R.''''' is a {{Gamebook}} by Steve Jackson in the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' series. It is especially noteworthy for taking on a very different subject: instead of the usual HeroicFantasy settings, it is set in a ComicBook-inspired superhero setting, though still in a place called "Titan" (Titan City, to be precise).
You are Jean Lafayette, a.k.a. The Silver Crusader, a masked vigilante who underwent a genetic experiment as you were born, and the effects started to show just as the scientists behind all this gave up on seeing the effects. Having either SuperStrength ([[FlyingBrick with Flight]]), PsychicPowers, being a GadgeteerGenius or blasting PureEnergy, you embark on a fight against crime in the city of Titan!
Evil organization Federation of Euro-American Rebels, or [[MeaningfulName F.E.A.R.]], led by the sinister Vladimir Utoshki a.k.a. the Titanium Cyborg, is bent on world domination. The Silver Crusader must stop F.E.A.R. the day their leaders are to meet, or else it might be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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!!''Appointment with F.E.A.R.'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* BaldOfEvil: Vladimir Utoshski
* TheBeastmaster: An unencountered supervillain is referred as this name, and the hero learns that he has escaped. Despite this, it is never mentioned again.
* BigBad: Vladimir Utoshski / Titanium Cyborg
* BoundAndGagged: Several instances. In one case, you do this to a villain once you defeat them.
* BusMansHoliday: Lafayette can hardly go shopping in the mall or relax on the seashore without some supervillain or big danger coming by...
* TheCape: That's the kind of superhero the Silver Crusader is supposed to be.
* CaptainErsatz: The book is full of them:
** The Scarlet Prankster is a CE of The Jester (Marvel) or the Joker (DC).
** The Creature of Carnage is definitely an ComicBook/IncredibleHulk CE.
** The Silver Crusader himself, as well. Picking Super Strength/Flight makes you very much like Franchise/{{Superman}}, while Gadgeteering Genius plays out a lot like Franchise/{{Batman}}.
* ChainsawGood: Chainsaw Bronski is a criminal whose weapon and tool of choice is, as you'd guess, [[ShapedLikeItself a chainsaw]].
* ChineseLaunderer: He seems to also serve food if you ask him too.
* DistressedDamsel: Several, although children and men are just as likely to need rescuing as the women.
* FunWithAcronyms: F.E.A.R itself.
* FlyingBrick: One of the four superpowers you can choose from, and the one that makes the game easier to beat.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the French version, the "Peking Duck" has been translated as ''"Canard de Cholon"'' ("Cholon Duck"). You'd better not try to learn what it is unless you require BrainBleach.
* GuideDangIt: As is usual for a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book.
* HeroicBystander: [[spoiler:If you are fighting The Poisoner and have super strength, a hostage you rescued earlier, will come to your aid and kill the Poisoner.]] Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Contains one of the darkest bad endings that you can possibly get in a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook.
* LighterAndSofter: When you fight enemies, you merely capture them as opposed to killing them. That's not to say that deaths don't occur in the book, just not when Silver Crusader wins any fights. Of course, [[ThouShaltNotKill you're a superhero]]. You ''can'' kill them, but you lose hero points. This is something of a hollow punishment when you consider that hero points ''are very rarely important''. Gameplay-wise, almost never. They're really meant as a way of keeping score so you can compare one playthrough to the next.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou
* MixAndMatchCritters: You will meet a mad scientist who has created a four-armed man and a tiger-headed one.
* MuggingTheMonster: You being the monster, of course. You can choose whether-or-not to fight them off, [[spoiler:although fighting them off leads to your secret identity being revealed and you having to retire from the superhero gig]].
* {{Mummy}}: One of the supervillains to be fought, described as an ImplacableMan.
* MysteriousInformant: Several.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Usually causes you to lose hero points, except for one case where your powers actually kill somebody and nobody calls you on it.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
** "[[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Blackson]]"?
** "Georgie Boy"?
** "Lloyd Webber-Andrews"?
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:The members of [=F.E.A.R.=] when you defeat Titanium Cyborg]]
* {{Pastiche}}: Of SilverAge superhero comics.
* PlayingWithFire: The Fire Warriors.
* {{Pun}}: The very last sentence if you get the good ending.
-->"You can honestly say that you've saved the world from F.E.A.R. itself."
* RedHerring: If you choose SuperStrength as your power, one of the clues you can obtain actually contradicts all the other clues. Deceptive, cunning villain or sloppy editing? Your call.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Fear The Serpent, supervillain in a snake suit who has an actual poisonous bite!
* ShoutOut: Many!
** "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne Bruce]]"? "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Drew Swayne]]"?
** "[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Street]]"
** It's possible to buy your boss a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' set, or a copy of ''The Warlock of Firetop Mountain''.
** [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Laboratories and Parker Airport]] appear in the same paragraph.
** Really, you can make a drinking game out of these. ([[ComicBook/FantasticFour Richard Storm]], anyone?)
* SuperheroSpeciation
* ThreateningShark: When you go to the beach, guess what danger comes from the sea?
* UngratefulBastard: If you defeat the shark by blowing it up with an Energy Bolt, it will explode and chunks of its flesh will land on the beach-goers... who will then criticize you harshly and calling you out for tormenting a "poor fish". This will quite dishearten you.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The Psi powers will prove to be the most useless one. Check this one if you want a challenge!
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Rather than instantly losing the final fight if you don't have the Circuit Jammer, you actually get to fight the Titanium Cyborg... only to automatically lose (and then die gruesomely) after 3 moves.]]
* YellowPeril: The only Asians to appear in the book are [[UnfortunateImplications shifty-eyed orientals in an ethnic restaurant]] who [[spoiler:turn out to be working for the Titanium Cyborg to destroy the world.]]
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You are Jean Lafayette, a.k.a. The Silver Crusader, a masked vigilante who underwent a genetic experiment as you were born, and the effects started to show just as the scientists behind all this gave up on seeing the effects. Having either SuperStrength ([[FlyingBrick with Flight]]), PsychicPowers, being a GadgeteerGenius or blasting PureEnergy, you embark on a fight against crime in the city of Titan!
Evil organization Federation of Euro-American Rebels, or [[MeaningfulName F.E.A.R.]], led by the sinister Vladimir Utoshki a.k.a. the Titanium Cyborg, is bent on world domination. The Silver Crusader must stop F.E.A.R. the day their leaders are to meet, or else it might be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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!!''Appointment with F.E.A.R.'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* BaldOfEvil: Vladimir Utoshski
* TheBeastmaster: An unencountered supervillain is referred as this name, and the hero learns that he has escaped. Despite this, it is never mentioned again.
* BigBad: Vladimir Utoshski / Titanium Cyborg
* BoundAndGagged: Several instances. In one case, you do this to a villain once you defeat them.
* BusMansHoliday: Lafayette can hardly go shopping in the mall or relax on the seashore without some supervillain or big danger coming by...
* TheCape: That's the kind of superhero the Silver Crusader is supposed to be.
* CaptainErsatz: The book is full of them:
** The Scarlet Prankster is a CE of The Jester (Marvel) or the Joker (DC).
** The Creature of Carnage is definitely an ComicBook/IncredibleHulk CE.
** The Silver Crusader himself, as well. Picking Super Strength/Flight makes you very much like Franchise/{{Superman}}, while Gadgeteering Genius plays out a lot like Franchise/{{Batman}}.
* ChainsawGood: Chainsaw Bronski is a criminal whose weapon and tool of choice is, as you'd guess, [[ShapedLikeItself a chainsaw]].
* ChineseLaunderer: He seems to also serve food if you ask him too.
* DistressedDamsel: Several, although children and men are just as likely to need rescuing as the women.
* FunWithAcronyms: F.E.A.R itself.
* FlyingBrick: One of the four superpowers you can choose from, and the one that makes the game easier to beat.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the French version, the "Peking Duck" has been translated as ''"Canard de Cholon"'' ("Cholon Duck"). You'd better not try to learn what it is unless you require BrainBleach.
* GuideDangIt: As is usual for a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book.
* HeroicBystander: [[spoiler:If you are fighting The Poisoner and have super strength, a hostage you rescued earlier, will come to your aid and kill the Poisoner.]] Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Contains one of the darkest bad endings that you can possibly get in a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook.
* LighterAndSofter: When you fight enemies, you merely capture them as opposed to killing them. That's not to say that deaths don't occur in the book, just not when Silver Crusader wins any fights. Of course, [[ThouShaltNotKill you're a superhero]]. You ''can'' kill them, but you lose hero points. This is something of a hollow punishment when you consider that hero points ''are very rarely important''. Gameplay-wise, almost never. They're really meant as a way of keeping score so you can compare one playthrough to the next.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou
* MixAndMatchCritters: You will meet a mad scientist who has created a four-armed man and a tiger-headed one.
* MuggingTheMonster: You being the monster, of course. You can choose whether-or-not to fight them off, [[spoiler:although fighting them off leads to your secret identity being revealed and you having to retire from the superhero gig]].
* {{Mummy}}: One of the supervillains to be fought, described as an ImplacableMan.
* MysteriousInformant: Several.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Usually causes you to lose hero points, except for one case where your powers actually kill somebody and nobody calls you on it.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
** "[[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Blackson]]"?
** "Georgie Boy"?
** "Lloyd Webber-Andrews"?
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:The members of [=F.E.A.R.=] when you defeat Titanium Cyborg]]
* {{Pastiche}}: Of SilverAge superhero comics.
* PlayingWithFire: The Fire Warriors.
* {{Pun}}: The very last sentence if you get the good ending.
-->"You can honestly say that you've saved the world from F.E.A.R. itself."
* RedHerring: If you choose SuperStrength as your power, one of the clues you can obtain actually contradicts all the other clues. Deceptive, cunning villain or sloppy editing? Your call.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Fear The Serpent, supervillain in a snake suit who has an actual poisonous bite!
* ShoutOut: Many!
** "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Wayne Bruce]]"? "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Drew Swayne]]"?
** "[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Street]]"
** It's possible to buy your boss a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' set, or a copy of ''The Warlock of Firetop Mountain''.
** [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Laboratories and Parker Airport]] appear in the same paragraph.
** Really, you can make a drinking game out of these. ([[ComicBook/FantasticFour Richard Storm]], anyone?)
* SuperheroSpeciation
* ThreateningShark: When you go to the beach, guess what danger comes from the sea?
* UngratefulBastard: If you defeat the shark by blowing it up with an Energy Bolt, it will explode and chunks of its flesh will land on the beach-goers... who will then criticize you harshly and calling you out for tormenting a "poor fish". This will quite dishearten you.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The Psi powers will prove to be the most useless one. Check this one if you want a challenge!
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Rather than instantly losing the final fight if you don't have the Circuit Jammer, you actually get to fight the Titanium Cyborg... only to automatically lose (and then die gruesomely) after 3 moves.]]
* YellowPeril: The only Asians to appear in the book are [[UnfortunateImplications shifty-eyed orientals in an ethnic restaurant]] who [[spoiler:turn out to be working for the Titanium Cyborg to destroy the world.]]
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